In the former Ming and Qing Dynasties of Gaoping City, there is a county ya ertang, which was preserved until the 1990s.
Gaoping County Ya Er Tang
Recently, I found photos of the prefectural ya'ertang from locally published photo albums, which were the same as the physical objects I had seen when I was a child. Viewed from the outside, the overall building is grand, with pillars in front of the door. Typical of the Ming and Qing dynasties hard hill top architectural style, there are painted paintings on the forehead under the eaves. It is only in the Republic of China era and after liberation that it has been the office of the county government, and the walls, doors and windows have been greatly changed, and the original style can no longer be seen. The back wall of the second hall is opened up to become a through-hall house, and the passage in the middle of the house can reach the backyard.
This photo was taken by Mr. Qin Hongyu and marked as the Gaoping County Ya Lobby, which should actually be the second hall of the County Ya. I looked at the ancient Gaoping County metallurgical map from Qing Shunzhi's "Chronicle of Gaoping County". The county has an Yi Gate, and further ahead is the Yi Lou, and entering the Yi Gate is the County Ya Lobby. The second hall should be at the back of the lobby. Since my father worked in the county government, I often played in the government compound when I was young, and I saw this ancient building in the back row of the compound. There is a staircase on the right side of the second hall to access the dark room above. The darkroom sometimes plays movies, and I've seen The Cotai Strip and the spy hunt movies. The hollow partition on the door of the second hall, the forehead is well preserved, and the girder has painted flowers, birds, fish and insects.
In ancient times, the county hall was the place where the county order welcomed guests, worked, and decided cases. The lobby building is solemn and solemn, the specification size is larger than the second hall, and there are many bucket arches under the eaves. The roof of the hard hill top should be the lowest grade building, and the Qing Dynasty stipulates that the offices of officials below the six pins are all hard hilltops, and the eaves on both sides are flat with the wall. The lobby and the second hall are both hard hilltops, because the county order is a seven-pin official. The scale of the second hall is much smaller than the lobby, with no flowery bucket arch support under the eaves, directly beams and foreheads, and the decoration is simple.
The county of Qing Shunzhi County records
The second hall of the county is the place where the county ordinance is discussed, which is equivalent to the current synagogue and conference room. There are masters, civil servants, etc. working in the box next to the second hall, handling the daily affairs of the county. Gaoping's earliest county was in Wang bao Village, twenty miles from the county seat, and in the spring and autumn, it was set up in The County, and Song Kaibao moved to the current site in the sixth year. Judging from the Shunzhi "Gaoping County Chronicle", the location of the county ya ertang is not marked, and the drinking spring hall behind the lobby may be another name for the second hall. In ancient times, in order to show its pro-people and love for the people, when the parent official of a county, he often wrote a plaque on the lintel of the lobby and the second hall with a graceful nickname.
I am good at studying cultural relics and allusions, mostly based on county records and historical materials of various periods as evidence, and never speculate indiscriminately. Some time ago, I wrote "Shanxi Gaoping Discovery of The Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei Temple", also based on the inscriptions and historical materials of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, widely praised, reading 28,000 articles, but unexpectedly a small number of people commented on the fake under the article, pulled, wrote fake articles to earn a few traffic money and so on. This reminds me of a similar incident, and a few years ago, I wrote "Gaoping Ancient City Left in the Depths of Time" in the municipal newspaper literary journal, and the response was enthusiastic. After the local newspaper's WeChat public account was reprinted, the click rate was tens of thousands of in a few days, and the praise was overwhelming. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper contacted me to open a column in the newspaper to publicize the cultural relics in the city and ask me to write articles. I drafted the column title of "Gaoping 3rd Street, 6th Alley, 9th Cave". The next day, however, the editor-in-chief told me that I could still write archaeological articles by putting a high school teacher in charge of column editing and organizing manuscripts. As a result, after I wrote the archaeological article, it has not been used, and the teacher told me that the editor-in-chief asked me to publish the archaeological article he wrote first, and then send it to me after sending his article. After more than a month, I asked the editor-in-chief, and the editor-in-chief said that the teacher said that the article you wrote was made up and did not conform to history, and he asked you to revise it and you have not changed it. Later, the teacher frequently published archaeological articles in the newspaper column, and each time he attached a photo of his archaeology at the site. Later, the person was given the title of traditional culture scholar by the local government. I just laughed, more than twenty years ago I wrote antiquities archaeology articles online and he was just a fan of mine. Then the archaeological article I posted was frequently commented that it was fake, and most of the comments were middle school students.
The Gaoping County Ya Lobby was demolished in the early 1990s when a government office building was built. At that time, there was a small gate on the east side of the old county, and the small courtyard that entered was a pavilion and a pavilion, which was very beautiful. It was also broken at the time. Also demolished are the ancient city imperial temple in the west of the old county, the old Guandi temple in the southeast of the county, and the old county yaxisi in the southwest.